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BRISBANE, Australia—The lead representative for Queensland’s sugar cane industry has questioned whether the full cost of the net zero transition has been accounted for.
Russell Hall, president of the cane sector with Agforce—the state’s peak agriculture representative body—said the government was overly focused on wind and solar, but did not take into account the advantages of readily available natural resources.
“Yes, the concept of harnessing the wind and the sun sounds great,” Hall told the audience at the Royal International Convention Centre on Oct. 1.
“No one can tell us the footprint of a panel, a blade, or the millions of tonnes of steel and concrete that goes into the foundations of a wind turbine, or the mining that goes into producing lithium, and aluminium to produce solar-powered battery farms….
